What are your favorite and least favorite words? Any reasons why?
Question submitted by Byrne.Good question…My favourite words…Some of my favourite words are favs because [A] of how they sound, others becuase [B] of what they mean to me, and then there are those words that [C] aren’t real words but combinations of real words that just sound great and should be made into real words.[A]parenthetically (an aside, as though spoken in parenthesis ;O), banana, blue, fruition, angst, fusion, pumpernickel, sustenance, pop, snap, boing, slosh, ripple… I could go on. Most of them are simple but I just like the way they sound.[B]genuine, integrity, love, family, Daddy (yeah…), honest, dream, sleep, hope, peace, sleep…[C]As far as I know, I made these ones up: Congraduation! (congratulations on the graduation… too wordy — no thanks), shinjury (what I called it when I split my shin open), sarchasm (a place you usually want to crawl into when a joke bombs — or — where the joke must have disappeared to if nobody got it), Mount Cleverest (what I said once that made me want crawl into a sarchasm).My favourite word-combination comes from the French translation of The Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter series… French for “choice” is « choix » [shwah] and for “hat” is « chapeau » [shapo] so they combined them to get « choixpeau » [shwapo]. Bloody brilliant!Words I don’t like…There are many words I don’t like because of their negative energy and the situations that they normally would have stemmed from: hate, murder, rape…Beyond these, the words that really get under my skin are the ones I have difficulty pronouncing. I guess I don’t technically stutter but I stammer a lot with words. Partially due a “lazy tongue” my mother has said I have. Add that to the fact that my brain always wants to talk faster than my “lazy tongue” can manage…Trouble words include: brewery (try to say this word repeatedly as fast as you can… okay, now try to imagine having a “lazy tongue” and having to work in a brewery, where you were required to use the word brewery repeatedly — awesome), sixth (why does my mouth always try to pronounce such a “simple” word as two syllables — six+th — aargh), and remember (I just seem to trip over this one every time [sigh].
Yeah, my mouth dislikes "prerequisite." I've given up and decided that forever and ever I will simply say prerec. That's good enough!
Fruition — good one, I second that! Daddy should be both in the [A] and [B] sections 😉 Oh, and your made-up words are total groaners! Argh!
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Come on… total groaners ;O)
I thought “shinjury” was pretty clever since I thought of it whilst (another word to add) bleeding through my pants. That was three weeks ago and it’s not completely healed yet. Required steri-strips and a bald patch shaved around the wound — sexy.
« Choixpeau » is pretty cool though, right? Please say it’s not just me.
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steelie
Wait, choixpeau? I fear I'm missing something…did you explain that? Some sort of adaptation on chapeau? Hat choice? (remember: my french is only comme ci comme ça)
Sorry to hear about the shin but glad I wasn't there to see it! End of season celebration? Remove a layer or two of skin to commemorate the occasion? Will you be playing next year?
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My favourite word-combination comes from the French translation of The Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter series… French for “choice” is « choix » [shwah] and for “hat” is « chapeau » [shapo] so they combined them to get « choixpeau » [shwapo]. Bloody brilliant!
The shinjury was from Parkour… cracked it on the corner of a cement wall — fun.
Nope, won’t be playing soccer next year… I’ll be on perma-Dad-duty.
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steelie
OHHHH! I get it now. I can't read apparently. No surprise, I've been staring at the screen all day trying to write two, 400 word blurbs for an exhibition catalogue. Harder than it may seem. I know *nothing* about these artists (nor do I really care) other than the few pages of info included in each hot-pink file folder provided for me by my prof (the curator). This "writing credit" thing is totally new to me: one person does the thinking, the other the wording!
Ok, I sleep now. Gotta write blurb #3 tomorrow a.m. so I have time to run my squillion errands in prep for my trip. Oh joy.
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Ok, in my defense: I *swear* that the first time I read your favourite words thing, it didn't include the bit about choixpeau! I swear! Oh…but I'm not supposed to swear anymore…oh dear.
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I love choixpeau.
Hehehehe, you're funny.
Speaking of words, what is the "this is good" thing about? Does it mean "this is good," as in what I'm writing to you (that seems a little self-boasting) or, "this is good," as in what I've just read on your blog??
It’s supposed to be about what you just read. From what I got from the last Team VOX post, it’s allow people to give a little positive nod without necessarily having to feel obligated to write a comment. On that note, the article/interview in that posting also mentioned that there is no [this is not good] button in the spirit of “If you can’t say something nice…”, which on some level is good but could potentially make for a misleadingly (?) cheery place.
Hmmm… maybe insted, it should be a three-star-rating system or something, that VOX “explorers” could then do searches based on the rating of the post. That might be cool! What d’ya think friend?
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steelie